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Each August Douglas hosts the Wyoming State Fair. The fair includes a carnival midway, live entertainment, and a rodeo. On August 12, 2009, the fair hosted country music star John Anderson. The centennial fair in 2012 attracted sixty thousand persons, large by Wyoming standards; the Dierks Bentley concert was the first ever sold-out show in the ...
Location of Converse County in Wyoming. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Converse County, Wyoming. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Converse County, Wyoming, United States. The locations of National Register properties and ...
The Douglas City Hall is the historic city hall located at 130 S. Third St. in Douglas, Wyoming. The building was constructed from 1915 to 1916 to serve as Douglas' center of government. Architect William Norman Bowman, who also designed the Weld County Courthouse in Greeley, Colorado, designed the building in the Georgian Revival style.
Douglas: 1888: Parts of Albany County and Laramie County. Amasa Rice Converse (1842–1885), a banker and rancher from Cheyenne, Wyoming. 13,809: 4,255 sq mi (11,020 km 2) Crook County: 011: Sundance: 1875: Parts of Laramie County and Albany County. General George Crook (1828–90), who served in the American Civil War and the Indian Wars ...
Converse County School District #1 is a public school district based in Douglas, Wyoming, United States. Geography ... Douglas Primary School; Grades K-8.
Wyoming Highway 59 Connector is a 0.45-mile (0.7 km) long connector route of WYO 59 in Douglas. [1] WYO 59C is the original alignment of Wyoming Highway 59 through Douglas. [ citation needed ] The route begins at WYO 59 and heads south 0.45 of a mile to meet WYO 59 (Fourth St.) [ 1 ]
The Douglas Main Post Office in Douglas, Wyoming, United States, was built in 1909 as part of a facilities improvement program by the United States Post Office Department. The post office in Douglas was nominated to the National Register of Historic Places as part of a thematic study comprising twelve Wyoming post offices built to standardized ...
The town's population declined from 1600 in 1886 to 900 in 1888. By 1891 Owen Wister reported that Douglas had a population of about 350. However, by 1910 Douglas had 2246 residents and hosted the Wyoming State Fair. The presence of the fair stimulated rail traffic, while the FE&MV merged with the Cheyenne and Northern Railway in 1903. In 1905 ...